Conrad Bain net worth: Conrad Bain was a Canadian born actor who had a net worth of $2 million. Conrad Bain was most famous for his role on the popular 1980s TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes". Bain played the wealthy adoptive father of three orphans played by Gary Coleman, Dana Plato and Todd Bridges. Since going off the air, Diff'rent Strokes has become somewhat of a cursed TV show after all three child stars, Plato, Coleman and Bridges all faced significant life challenges in later life. Both Plato and Coleman died unexpectedly after years of controversy and Bridges struggled for years with drug addiction. Conrad Bain was born in Alberta, Canada and had an acting career that spanned four decades. Bain died at the age of 89 on January 14, 2013 at his home in Livermore California.

Conrad Stafford Bain (February 4, 1923a??January 14, 2013) was a Canadian-born American actor. His television credits include a leading role as Phillip Drummond in the sitcom Diffa??rent Strokes and as Dr. Arthur Harmon on Maude.Bain was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, the son of Jean Agnes (nA(C)e Young) and Stafford Harrison Bain who was a wholesaler. He studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts before serving in the Canadian Army during World War II.Conrad is the identical twin brother of Bonar Bain.He later studied in New York at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where his classmates were comedian Don Rickles; he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1946, before graduating in 1948.Bain had two sons and a daughter with Monica Sloan, to whom he was married in 1945 until her death in 2009. His identical twin brother is Bonar Bain, who once played Arnold Harmon, the twin brother of Conrada??s Maude character, Dr. Arthur Harmon.Despite a popular misconception, Conrad was not related to fellow performer Barbara Bain.Bain died of natural causes on January 14, 2013, in Livermore, California.After a stint at the Stratford, (Ontario), Shakespeare Festival, Bain had further success as a stage actor in the 1956 Broadway revival of Eugene Oa??Neilla??s The Iceman Cometh.The New York Times reviewer noted that his role was a??especially well acted.a?? Baina??s other Broadway theatre credits include Candide, Advise and Consent, An Enemy of the People, Uncle Vanya, and On Borrowed Time. On Off Broadway, he appeared in the original run of Steambath. While doing stage work in New York City, Bain also found work on television, appearing in the soap opera Dark Shadows as the town inkeeper, Mr. Wells, during seasons 1 and 2. His character was killed off by werewolf Chris Jennings (Don Briscoe).In the early 1960s, Bain was one of the principal organizers of the Actors Federal Credit Union. In an article in the Credit Union Times, he rec

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This Sept. 13, 1981 file photo shows actor Conrad Bain from the television show "Different Strokes," at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. Bain, who starred as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom "Diff'rent ...

Conrad Bain, the easygoing TV star who played the Park Avenue father on the 1978-85 sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, died in his hometown of Livermore, Calif., on Monday. He was 89. His daughter, Jennifer Bain, confirmed his death to PEOPLE, and said her father ...

Actor Conrad Bain-- who famously played father figure Phillip Drummond on "Diff'rent Strokes" -- has passed away. He was 89. Bain family sources tell TMZ, Bain died Monday night at a retirement home in Livermore, CA from natural causes. We spoke with Bain ...